Grocery shopping, what do kids need to know? Teaching the life skill of grocery shopping early can give them appreciation for what they have and to also evaluate newspaper advertisements and marketing. We received a Kroger ad flier in the mail today, and when my son was looking it over, he was very impressed that […]
Teaching Children How to Fill Out Forms
One of the life skills our children will need over and over is how to fill out forms. Our children will fill out hundreds of forms throughout their lives. It only follows that practicing this necessary (although tedious) skill can ease the process in the future and hopefully prevent needless do-overs. I mean, how many […]
Goodbye, Flat Pancakes!
I've rarely made pancakes from scratch that weren't flat and practically tasteless. So I was understandably skeptical when I tried Jenny's recipe for Good Old-Fashioned Pancakes, which she promised would produce nice, fluffy pancakes. But Jenny was right. The pancakes did turn out light and fluffy — and delicious! Now I just have to figure […]
Restructuring Our Homeschool Calendar
Creating more breaks in our homeschool calendar hopefully will prevent burnout by both the kids and parent/teachers. Inspired by my blogging friend, Sonshine, we have completely revamped our schedule for the school year. For the last three full years, we've adopted a public-school-like schedule, beginning in late August, breaking for three to five days at […]
My Favorite Baking Substitutions
I want to share my favorite baking substitutions because they are easy and very necessary at times. Have you ever starting making a recipe, only to discover that, after already mixing together the dry ingredients, you're missing a crucial ingredient like vegetable oil or buttermilk? That's happened to me more times than I care to […]
How to Teach Phone Skills
Teaching your children phone skills will eliminate the answer "I don't know" when you ask who called? I used to work as a telemarketer for a phone company — and I hated every single minute of it! But the experience did give me the opportunity to observe how completely awful many people’s telephone skills are. […]
Menu Plan: Week of November 17
I haven't been cooking much lately. My schedule has been such that we've done yo-yo dinners almost every night. But I'm getting really tired of that, and I think my family is too. Time to break out the good ol' crock pot and start cooking again! So here's the plan for this week. Monday: Slow-Cooker […]
Is college a waste of time?
In asking the question is college a waste of time I am seeking to challenge my children to evaluate what their goals are toward college. Before you get offended unnecessarily, I am in no way suggesting that people who have a college education have wasted their time. I only want to share that over the […]
Slow Cooker Chicken Wet Burritos
Slow cooker chicken wet burritos are so easy and a great way to make ahead meals for the month. Wet burritos is one of our family's favorite meals. I've made them before with refried beans as a filling and with a taco meat/bean filling, but I'd never made them with chicken until last night. After […]
Apologia Exploring Creation Homeschool Science Curriculum
If you are looking for a good Homeschool Science Curriculum then read this post. Jaden's in sixth grade and will be starting "big-boy" science next year (by "big-boy" I just mean he'll be doing a full-blown 7th grade General Science curriculum), but I didn't want him to miss out on reading through the Apologia Exploring […]
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